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Council poll: Left hits jackpot

Special Correspondent

Its candidates emerge victorious with impressive margins

TIRUPATI: The CPI(M) reaped a rich harvest in the just concluded polls to the teachers and graduates constituencies of the Legislative Council in the district. The candidates fielded by the party with the support of its frontal units have romped home with impressive margins.

While the Rayalaseema (East) teachers' seat comprising Chittoor, Nellore and Prakasam districts was won by a teacher and a founder-member of the United Teachers' Federation, Dachuri Rami Reddy the seat under the graduates constituency also went in favour of a candidate fielded by the CPM-backed outfit, Jana Vignana Vedika, Vithapu Balasubramanyam.

In both the seats, it was not the ruling Congress but the Opposition TDP which gave a stiff fight to the candidates. Though Congress did not field any candidate officially to either of the seats, it gave tacit support to some.

But none of them could give any contest worth the name to the two left-backed candidates.

Y.V. Rami Reddy, head of a local private school group polled 1,925 votes and came third in the 12-cornered contest to the teachers' seat. Dachuri Rami Reddy virtually `retained' his seat after two decades because he was its sitting member when TDP founder N.T. Rama Rao abolished the Legislative Council.

In the contest to the graduates seat also, if there was a semblance of fight given to JVV veteran, Balasubramanyam, it was by TDP's D. Hanumantha Rao.

The outcome of the poll leaves something to cheer about for all the opposition parties including the TRS. To the ruling dispensation, it appears to have flashed a signal about the times to come.

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